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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Red drives on technocrane

Brook Willard said:
Success with RED DRIVEs on a crane [stabilized head or otherwise]. I find that the RED DRIVEs are generally unusable in any remotely rough situations.
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Brook,

Our last project was 85% rough situations, lasting 4 long weekends, and we did not have a single issue. Maybe we were lucky, but I would do it again based on my experience. :devil:
 
No problems here on the crane:

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:)

Paul
 
Damn, that's an epic shot. Is the video finished yet?
 
I shot a motorcycle spec with RED One on the back of a U-Haul flatbed trailer in Texas hill country. It was dropping frames all over the place. Once I wrapped the drive in a terrycloth towel and taped it to the rods, I didn't experience a single dropped frame.
 
Brook Willard said:
Success with RED DRIVEs on a crane [stabilized head or otherwise]. I find that the RED DRIVEs are generally unusable in any remotely rough situations.
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really? the only time i dropped frames was when I was shooting nascar and the cars engines would drop frames when they passed by at 35yrds. I've shaken the camera as hard as I could on my shoulder and could not get it to skip. Just seems like the micro vibrations and the hard hits are the deal breakers.
 
Sustained vibration, strong and repeated shock, and strong G-forces can affect spinning media. Any one of those can cause a head to lose it's track and try writing again. If sustained, then the delays add up and you get dropped frames.

We recommended that the REDraid not be used in conditions with strong shock, vibe, and movement. For longer record times, we'll have flash based media that will be more suitable.
 
Sean Sweeney said:
Damn, that's an epic shot. Is the video finished yet?
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Not to derail the thread too much but it's not my video (I was only the DIT on this one) so I'm not sure if it's finished yet. I can say the footage looked spectacular and was some of the best stuff I've seen shot on our camera. I'll try to get a link to it online once finished but that depends on the producers (it's a very famous band here in Japan so rights are a big issue).

Photo taken with the lowly Panasonic DMC-LX1 in RAW and post-processed in Photoshop. Don't underestimate a point-and-shoot in the right hands :)

Cheers!

Paul
 
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